Shadia is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Shadia in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Shadia in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Shadia by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Shadia ranks at #8,980. That means there are 8,979 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Shadia.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Shadia. Girls named Shadia have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 2,718 Shadia ranked higher than ever before in 1986. By comparison, there have been 93 years in which the first name Shadia has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2007. In general, parents name their daughters Shadia only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Shadia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Shadia continues to be a precious jewel: 6 newborns were named Shadia that year, ranking #11,784 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Shadia, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
The first name Shadia is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 71 Americans in total bear this name. And these 71 women are located in only four states: California, Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Shadia and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Shadia in relation to it’s female population is New York. And yet even there, only one in 238,666 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Shadia.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Shadia is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Shadia and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Shadia, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Apple
Dinosaur
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Shadia
Shadia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
A
D
I
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
S
H
A
D
I
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Shadia sounds like this:
